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In Barks' early stories he associated the ducks with the
Disney studios where<br>
he had worked, located in Burbank, California, USA. Thus, Burbank
was<br>
mentioned in several stories. He then decided it best that these
fictional<br>
characters should have their own fictional home, so he based them in
Duckburg;<br>
in "The Magic Hourglass", we see Duckburg is a large
city. Then in "The<br>
Guilded Man" he needed a state for Duckburg, and named the fictional
state<br>
of Calisota, but still part of the USA. Although Scrooge may have
many<br>
foreign coins, most stories are concerned with his USA money. We
long<br>
wondered how Scrooge could earn his first dime (an American coin) while
still<br>
a boy in Scotland, so Don Rosa developed that in his story.
Scrooge's <br>
1916 quarter in "Atlantis (US5)" is certainly also an American
coin.<br>
Even in Don Rosa's story, "His Magesty McDuck", Scrooge is
still concerned<br>
with acquiring more American money through tax refunds of the
federal<br>
USA government---as head of an independent country, Scrooge argues
that<br>
he didn't owe those taxes. Unfortunately, Scrooge never realized
that as <br>
monarch of an independent country, he could create his own money!<br>
In a later Barks story, "Treasure of Marco Polo
(US64)", Barks seems to<br>
consider Duckburg an <b>independent country</b>! On Page 6, panel
6, Scrooge<br>
says "But I'm a <b>Duckburgian</b> citizen!" And on page
9, panel 2, he says<br>
"There's the <b>Duckburgian embassy</b>! I'm going in and
demand protection!"<br>
Indeed, the flag on this building has a duck on an otherwise blank field;
it's<br>
not a USA flag. Are there other Barks stories where the ducks are
not<br>
considered USA citizens? I was quite perturbed to see Scrooge
proclaiming<br>
himself a Duckburgian citizen in this story.<br>
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